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An Apple A Day!
October 9, 2017 - October 13, 2017
Celebrate all things apple with this week’s festive and delicious chef dishes.
We also have some fun fact to get you in the apple-tizing mood:
- 2,500 varieties of apples are grown in the United States and in all 50 states. 7,500 varieties are grown throughout the world.
- Apples are fat, sodium, and cholesterol free.
- Apples trees take 4 to 5 years to produce their first fruit.
- Apples are a member of the rose family.
- Don’t peel. Two-thirds of the fiber and lots of antioxidants are found in the apple peel.
- Archeologist have found evidence that humans have been enjoying apples since at least 6500 B.C.
- National Apple Month, originally founded in 1904 as Apple Week, expanded in 1996 to September- November.
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